It’s been a scenic week. This amazing, huge cloud shaped like an anvil decorated the sky near Mt. Rainier just a few days ago, taken from the overlook right near my house.

Giant cloud near Mt. Rainier in eastern Washington, with airplane

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Watering the thirsty garden this evening, I looked up. I really love this image and I am calling it my weekly Top Shot.

“Hand of God” rays in the warm evening sky at dusk

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Scenic view of Burien, Washington this evening.

Flower basket and old lamppost in downtown Burien, WA, as the sun sets.

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Visited my favorite Seattle haunt, the Volunteer Park Conservatory last week. You can see that restoration work is progressing on the Seasonal House on the right. Full project is due to be done in December. Aren’t the outdoor plantings lovely?

Restoration of the Volunteer Park Conservatory is progressing nicely

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The weather was quite cool and damp at the Alki Art Fair this weekend, but Seattleites are a hardy bunch and many came out to stroll and shop. Even gray skies can be scenic!

Looking north to Seattle’s Space Needle, from Alki Beach, under dramatic gray skies

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Drove to a scenic stretch of beach a few minutes from my house because it was shaping up as a great sunset. What do you think of it?

Puget Sound from Three Tree Point beach, south of Seattle, at sunset

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The other evening in my back yard, right before the current heat wave in Seattle.

Cirrus clouds or mare’s tails at sunset with the moon almost full

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Dill is very happy in my garden and reseeds so well that I see why it is called dill weed. But it is beautiful and fragrant, and I love to cook with it, so at least some stays. Here is a flower about the size of my hand, not quite in bloom. Note: the word umbel comes from the word umbrella!

Dill umbel, still partly closed, against an early summer sky

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Found a picture that my brother took last year at this time of me in my garden.

Photoblogger Sara at her patio garden, June 2013

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This sky is from exactly one year ago. I really love this image and I am calling it my weekly Top Shot.

Clouds at sunset, with trees in silhouette

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